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BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPETITION clearance has been granted by the European Commission to the planned deal involving Finnish paper manufacturer UPM-Kymmene Corporation acquiring Morgan Adhesives, a United States-based company making adhesive labels for manufacturers. Brussels concluded after an inquiry that the takeover would not damage competition in the European Union (EU) as US-based Avery Dennison would remain the market leader in Europe.…

Keith Nuthall
FINLAND’S tough levy on non-reusable beverage packaging is under attack from the European Commission, which is claiming that the charge could be a disguised and illegal trade restriction. Brussels is threatening to take the Finnish government to the European Court of Justice over the matter, which could order it to reform the system.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a deal under which the UK’s Corus Group will relinquish its joint control of the Finnish undertaking AvestaPolarit Oyj Abp, a producer of stainless steel to the present joint owner Outokumpu Oyj, a Finnish mining company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL demand for paper is set to surge ahead, despite the harbingers of doom who predicted that IT advances would create a paper-less world, according to the latest World Commodity Survey of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STONE discards stored by a quarry for future sales, should be classified as waste under European Union regulations, even if they do not “pose any real risk to human health or the environment” the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LETS face it. The reputation of the European Union for taking firm action against crime is not solid. Rather it is known for issuing waffley communiqués that say what needs to be done, without saying when or how.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FINNISH government has been ordered by the European Commission to change legislation that disqualifies car passengers from insurance cover when the driver is drunk and involved in an accident. Brussels says this exclusion of passengers’ injuries contravenes the EU’s second motor insurance directive, which seeks to harmonise national regulations for the sector and to safeguard the interests of persons who may be injured in a motor vehicle accident.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A FINNISH district heating business has been given permission by the European Commission to secure sole control of a Swedish electricity joint venture in which it already has 50 per cent ownership. Fortum Oyj will now be able to own 100 per cent of Birka Energi AB, which is currently part owned by the City of Stockholm.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FATHER Christmas would have been appalled; European Commission officials have been censured for enjoying the hospitality of a Russian game exporter, which they subsequently granted permission to send reindeer meat to the European Union.

Jacob Söderman, the European Ombudsman has played Santa, ruling that these Eurocrats compromised themselves during a fact-finding mission to Russia, by allowing Sweden-based company Norrfrys Ab to lay on lunch, hotel and flight reservations, temporary fax facilities, interpretation services and inspection cars.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN ADVOCATE General of the European Court of Justice has ruled that by using the value of a new car as a yardstick for determining the taxes on an imported second-hand vehicle, Finland is violating EU treaty regulations.…